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Public Water Works

The nation’s tap is in serious danger: our public water systems are woefully underfunded.

We want you to help protect public water. Join tens of thousands of people calling on our nation’s leaders to prioritize our most essential public service; a service which helps grow the economy, create jobs and vastly improve the public’s health.

Add your signature to a letter to President Obama and members of Congress today. Together we can make a difference in guaranteeing our water systems for generations to come.

We are calling for your leadership in bolstering and safeguarding our most fundamental public service: public water systems.

The time has come to deepen the commitment to water as an essential public service and prioritize reinvestment in this critical, yet unsung resource – one that has helped make America great and will continue to do so into the future if we make it so.

When Coca-Cola’s interference put the the National Park Service’s plan to end the sale of bottled water at risk, thousands of members took action. The public outcry moved the Park Service to make good on its plan.

After the unanimous adoption of the global tobacco treaty, we launched a whirlwind grassroots campaign with governments and allied organizations across the Global South, swelling the number of ratifying countries from approximately 40 to 175 today.

After years of grassroots organizing by a powerful coalition coordinated by Corporate Accountability International, Colombia –once a safe haven for Big Tobacco – passed a comprehensive national tobacco control law in keeping with the global tobacco treaty.

We succeeded so well in connecting Philip Morris' brand image to its deadly abuses that even, after spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve its brand, it was forced to change its name in 2003.

Here in Nagpur, like everywhere else, corporate control of water has been a disaster. But what’s worse? The World Bank is now promoting my city’s privatization as a success story -- to replicate in as many as 600 cities across India.

What lies underneath the glitter-and-red-rose commercial hype of the holiday is a profound truth: we thrive in relationships. And after doing this work for more than twenty years I have come to understand that deep, meaningful, respectful relationships are the ultimate bedrock for creating transformative change.